Background
The Menendez brothers grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, where their father was a corporate executive and their mother was a school teacher who quit her job to be a homemaker after Erik was born. They spent their teen years and young adulthood in Beverly Hills, California, where their father was a high ranking executive in the entertainment industry. Both of them attended Princeton Day School for grade school, and Lyle attended Princeton University. After the family moved to California in 1987 when their father got a job at Carolco, Erik attended high school in Calabasas, California. Lyle was placed on academic probation at Princeton for poor grades and disciplinary probation, and he eventually dropped out after allegations of plagiarism. Erik made average grades in school. Both brothers became proficient tennis players, pushed by their father to excel.
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